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Bretty_boy t1_j266tbu wrote

Reply to comment by RegulusRemains in The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel

Haha ok well when you’re wrong you’re wrong I guess lol

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RegulusRemains t1_j268c8d wrote

When I first read it I had this crazy epiphany that emperor shaddam was like general saddam hussein.

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greenknight884 t1_j27b79c wrote

On the planet of IRAQkkis

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RegulusRemains t1_j27g9ee wrote

Exactly haha. After I read it and googled publication date and the Iraq conflict I was left with a blown mind

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QuickSpore t1_j272sa5 wrote

Probably not the inspiration though.

Dune was first published in 1965. Back then Saddam was a minor revolutionary figure in jail while the anti-Ba’athist Abdul Salam Arif was president and functional dictator of Iraq. Back then Saddam was a known, but rare, Arabic name.

Saddam Hussein wouldn’t rise to prominence until the 1968 coup where his cousin Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr became president and Saddam became vice President.

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RegulusRemains t1_j2788wz wrote

Oh that's why the epiphany stuck. I thought it predicted the future haha. Literally thought this book was a prediction of our future.

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